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| Hello! Thank you for your interest in my humble campaign! | |
| What I am looking to accomplish here is not trivial, so there are many | |
| words below attempting to explain things as much as possible, without boring | |
| you to death. I also started an AMA-style_reddit_thread for additional | |
| questions. If you come here already knowing who I am, what I do, and just want | |
| me to “shut up and take your money”, please consider that in addition to the | |
| obvious financial struggle this fund-raiser serves to resolve a cultural | |
| struggle as well. While I clearly welcome any and all contributions, I urge you | |
| to inform yourself before making one. A log_of_modifications_can_be_found_here. | |
| So… hi! My name is Peter “ribasushi” Rabbitson. I have worked with Perl5 | |
| for over a decade, a lot of this time being spent building stuff on CPAN¹ as | |
| opposed to stuff with CPAN. End-users know me mostly as being the name behind | |
| the premier_Perl5_ORM-like_project_DBIx::Class (DBIC for short), after | |
| successfully taking the reins from the ridiculously prolific Matt_Trout 7 years | |
| ago. Conference goers mostly know me as the gesticulating beer drinker, who | |
| occasionally gives half-assed_presentations, or just rambles_incoherently. The | |
| inner circle of perl5 and the toolchain know me as the uncompromising asshole | |
| who consistently prioritizes pragmatic code over their wishes and feelings ? | |
| Let's address the elephant in the room right away - “wow this is a lot of | |
| money!”. It would be if I were to ask individual contributors to gather funds | |
| for vague goals. This is not the case: I am specifically looking for my large | |
| existing users to “split the bill” based on my past performance, for their | |
| benefit and the benefit of CPAN as a whole. In other words this fund-raiser is | |
| a public plea to companies which partially or entirely rely on my work, and | |
| would like to see me continue rolling in the same direction, at the same speed, | |
| and with the same focus. Or in even simpler terms: | |
| * In order to reach the target, 25 businesses expecting DBIx::Class to retain | |
| its near-legendary stability need to budget the equivalent of merely $500 per | |
| month, each | |
| * In order for me to reach the campaign tilt, just 20 businesses need to do the | |
| same | |
| This is also why this campaign is remarkably long (90 days): it is designed | |
| to give ample time for interested businesses to jump through the necessary | |
| procedural hoops. If using a credit card on http://tilt.com/ is not an option, | |
| or if you would prefer to go the W9/1099 or similar route – please contact me | |
| so we can arrange something. No matter in what manner the contribution is made | |
| it will count towards the final goal, as long as it takes place before December | |
| 31st 2015. | |
| The next order of business is handling of publicity and recognition of | |
| donors, alongside with the available “perk levels”. Clearly I am going to write | |
| an extensive_blogpost or two, as I have done previously, but that's not all | |
| (after all blog-words are cheap). Many years ago I went 100% mobile, with my | |
| exclusive workstation becoming a_high-quality_"retro-laptop", which I carry | |
| practically everywhere I go. If this campaign is a success I plan to install | |
| a professionally designed full-lid “laptop skin”, listing all contributors in | |
| various capacities (see below), alongside an attention-grabbing “I work full | |
| time on open source, ask me how I can afford it” or something along these lines | |
| (the professional designer will have final say in what things should look | |
| like). So without further ado - the levels: | |
| * $10 or more | |
| You are a believer, thank you! Your name will appear in a small-size font on | |
| my laptop for the entirety of 2016. In case you are not part of | |
| the impressive_list_of_DBIC_contributors, you will | |
| also get a permanent mention there. | |
| * $3,000 or more: one-time contribution equivalent to $250+/month towards | |
| responsible and sustainable OSS work | |
| Thank you for your substantial support! The same reward as above, except your | |
| name will appear in a large-size font on my laptop for the entirety of 2016. | |
| Additionally your name and contribution amount will be explicitly_mentioned | |
| after_the_count_at_the_end_of_the_test_suite, and seen by anyone watching the | |
| test run of DBIx::Class around the world! | |
| * $6,000 or more: one-time contribution equivalent to $500+/month towards | |
| responsible and sustainable OSS work | |
| Wow! You are one of “the 25”, thank you so much for helping me make history! | |
| Same as the previous level, but in addition you get a full-color logo of your | |
| choice added to my laptop! Also you will be shown the final artwork before it | |
| goes to print, to make sure you are happy with the end-result. | |
| * $12,000 or more: one-time contribution equivalent to $1,000+/month towards | |
| responsible and sustainable OSS work | |
| Ok… you clearly mean business, THANK YOU! You covered not one but two | |
| “25” slots. In addition to all of the above, your engineers get up to 12 | |
| hours of video-call time with me⁶, to chat about anything that I could | |
| competently help you with: DBIC design/performance questions, weird | |
| intermittent heisenbug issues, general architectural questions, etc. As long | |
| as the problem lies within my area of expertise I will devote my full | |
| attention and try to help your engineers as much as I can. | |
| Needless to say if the fund-raising succeeds, I will attempt to visit | |
| most major_Perl_events in 2016 and give one or two talks there, mentioning this | |
| campaign and its participants ( not that me giving a presentation is a very | |
| desirable perk ? ) | |
| So what will a “year of ribasushi” actually buy? For the past several | |
| years (with the exception of a very depressing May~Aug) I have been averaging | |
| about 25 hours per week dealing with DBIC, breakage in the dependency chain, | |
| various toolchain discussions, and other work mainly described as “deeply | |
| janitorial”. I plan to ramp this up to 40 hours per week and continue | |
| maintaining this pace and focus, with the addition of public real-time project | |
| and time tracking. | |
| As a by-product of this increased focus, there undoubtedly will be | |
| multiple new developments. Follows an utterly non-exhaustive list of more | |
| substantial (sub)projects that I am looking forward to tackle in 2016, prefixed | |
| with their rough stage of current readiness. Please keep in mind that many of | |
| them are inter-related: for example speeding up DBIC installs requires better | |
| CI timing instrumentation, which requires the App::MonProc supervisor to get | |
| finished up. | |
| * DBIx::Class related | |
| o (70%) Proper relationship options/conditions | |
| o (10%) Fold SQL::Abstract into DBIC itself (will remove a massive SQL- | |
| generation bottleneck) | |
| o (5%) Allow inlining of inflate_result() callbacks (will provide an immense | |
| speedup during object construction, on the same order of magnitude (~15 | |
| times) as DBIC 0.08250 did) | |
| o (5%) Introduce a proper Schema-state and generic metadata caching layer | |
| (will allow markedly faster result parsing) | |
| o (40%) Allow for project-wide column aliasing (e.g. all your application | |
| code uses a pleasant-to-read column name, while the underlying RDBMS has a | |
| completely different unseemly column name) | |
| o (25%) Introduce lazy/partial Schema loading (much faster startup) | |
| o (60%) Improve test-time of DBIC (currently at 4 minutes, reduce down to 1) | |
| o (80%) Do more preparation/legwork to give a chance to the “DBIC re- | |
| documentation project” to become a reality | |
| o (60%) Possibly look at revamping and finishing DBIC::Shadow (long shot | |
| though, pieces aren't in place yet) | |
| o (20%) Make the storage layer much more flexible (and faster) | |
| o (10%) Work with mst on an actual Data::Query AST specification | |
| o (15%) Integrate an alternative Data::Query-based specification for complex | |
| relationship definitions | |
| o (???) Find someone with enough experience to pair and design an async DBIC | |
| sub-interface, and then implement it | |
| * Dependency chains | |
| o (90%) Turn the TravisCI setup into a real once-per-day smoker (submitting | |
| FAIL reports etc) | |
| o (70%) Take a tangible stab at modularizing the DBIC TravisCI setup, test | |
| drive it on SQL::Abstract / SQL::Translator | |
| o (0%) Extend the type of smoking to other branches of the common dependency | |
| chains (Plack/Web::Simple, perhaps Catalyst, maybe even as far as RapidApp) | |
| o (40%) Improve test/installation times of DBIC dependencies | |
| o (70%) Generate precise timings of tests / dependency installation / etc | |
| timings across various perl versions. Work with renormalist to integrate | |
| them into the perlformance graphs | |
| * Toolchain | |
| o (90%) Finish the advanced dependency grapher ( a prototype was showcased at | |
| QAH2015, but then I realized it renders incorrect data in pathological | |
| cases – needs a thorough rewrite ) | |
| o (80%) Finish and publish the optional dependency specification as used | |
| without failure in DBIC since 2010 | |
| o (80%) Finish and publish the environment reporting tool currently used by | |
| DBIC | |
| * Misc | |
| o (70%) Extract / standardize / document the leak-free circular dependency | |
| mechanism used by DBIC | |
| o (80%) Finish App::MonProc ( generic instrumentation for verbatim capture of | |
| process IO and other stats, think a crossbreed between “lockfree IPC:: | |
| Open3” and “tee on steroids” ) | |
| o (???) Continue engaging in the Perl Toolchain Gang, advocating for better | |
| care of the CPAN river etc | |
| The last "misc" point deserves further elaboration: Throughout all work I | |
| undertake I pledge to continuously uphold and where possible expand the | |
| implicit commitment made to existing deployments: commitment of backward- and | |
| when possible bugward-compatibility. I want to underscore in no uncertain terms | |
| the importance I assign to such efforts, and to put my position in stark | |
| contrast with the currently prevalent mood that could be summed up | |
| as “stability is an enterprise quirk, which the average user should neither | |
| seek nor count on, especially in the realm of free software”. I strongly | |
| believe that attitudes_like_this is what ails our software commons in general, | |
| and the Perl5 ecosystem in particular. Large-scale semi-forced upgrades, which | |
| in the real world are costly and almost_never_problem_free must remain an | |
| action of last resort for the end user. Instead a responsible toolsmith must | |
| strive to allow individual components to be swapped out with no disturbances to | |
| the surrounding environment. Moreover, an uncomfortably small, but dedicated | |
| group of like-minded developers, have consistently demonstrated this to be | |
| achievable without expending almost any extra effort, thus making this | |
| a question of attitude as opposed to naively making it a question of volunteer | |
| time availability. | |
| To put it another way: I believe that if an end-user (corporate and | |
| individual alike) needs to change their application code upon library upgrade, | |
| while the changes do not offer compelling direct benefits to their codebase – | |
| this is a sign I have failed as a maintainer, and it is on me to find a better | |
| way, and make things right for the user. | |
| Still – how did I arrive at these exact money amounts? Having recently | |
| turned 0x21² , I get to think a lot about where_I_stand_and_where_I_am_going. | |
| Of course my circumstances and views differ substantially from that article, | |
| but the question is still there. Bottom practical line is: my debt levels are | |
| becoming unserviceable, while at the same time I am not ready to willingly | |
| abandon my DBIC/CPAN/Perl5 efforts (and in fact am ready to double down). Hence | |
| this campaign to break the deadlock, essentially attempting to replicate the | |
| feat of Damian_Conway_from_15_years_ago. In addition this is a feeble attempt | |
| to prove that my efforts to retain stability for existing users at all costs, | |
| and to optimize the software stack for the end-user at the expense of the | |
| community's inner circle are actually worth something. | |
| In order to paint a better picture, allow me a short recap of my present | |
| situation: | |
| * The good: | |
| I nearly single-handedly develop and maintain one of the cornerstones of the | |
| Perl5 “batteries included” offering. I am unreasonably good at what I do. | |
| Besides the technical chops I bring to the table, I am blessed with a | |
| remarkable ability to hold and recall vast amounts of technical trivia, and | |
| to effortlessly keep my concentration on a problem for ridiculous periods of | |
| time. Despite being more efficient than average, I never manage to lose sight | |
| of the simple truth: that my time (and dignity) as a library developer is | |
| under no circumstances more valuable than that of any other developer/system | |
| integrator/product tester/etc who happen to be using my work. If anything the | |
| understanding of the multiplication-factor attached to my actions obligates | |
| me to be even more careful and reasoned in every line I publish. Over time | |
| this streak has earned me non-trivial_recognition_within_the_community: no | |
| longer that of a volunteer but instead of a ridiculously skilled professional | |
| electing to work pro-bono. As a pleasant side effect (without explicitly | |
| searching for work) my inbox contains several open-ended job offers from | |
| companies doing interesting things, both contract and salaried. One of them | |
| even has an actual number attached: $150k³ . In short – I come remarkably | |
| close to a truly emphatic full stack engineer, my skills are recognized, | |
| respected and valued, I am in my prime, the world is my oyster. | |
| * The bad: | |
| My attention to detail does not have an “off switch” - in other words I am | |
| thorough not by choice but “by design”. The result is propensity to approach | |
| most problems via time consuming, “holistic”, deeply integrated solutions. | |
| This yields superb results in the long run, but makes it very difficult to | |
| seek full time employment – it becomes a zero-sum battle for my limited | |
| waking time. To top it off I am both deeply utilitarian and (stupidly) | |
| altruistic beyond a fault, resulting in a moral obstacle preventing me from | |
| diverting most of my time from the wider user base, which would essentially | |
| be robbed of a unique and irreplaceable combination of skill, domain | |
| knowledge, and… grit. This leaves part-time contract work as the only | |
| potential source of income. As of late I have utterly failed to secure such | |
| work, mainly due to my utilitarianism clashing with the predominantly | |
| available work: one-off slap-together-and-forget jobs. The actual verbatim | |
| text I have recently sent to several prospective outfits⁴ reads: | |
| ...While I am looking for something much more involved than "drive-by code- | |
| and-forget consulting", I am also looking for an arrangement decidedly less | |
| involved than "company owns all my waking hours". I consider the non-trivial | |
| amount of time I spend on OSS work too important to give up unilaterally, | |
| even if it very tangibly hurts my income. This is why I started looking at | |
| companies with an established product in need of care/maintenance… | |
| As you have probably guessed - so far there have been no takers. The | |
| reflection on my financial situation, while not catastrophic⁵, is becoming | |
| close to utterly unsustainable: as of this writing I owe various | |
| institutions, family and friends about $35,000~$40,000 (about $18k of this is | |
| institutions, due “soon”). | |
| * The ugly | |
| To top it off my sense of responsibility to the end-user is not shared within | |
| the active core of the “Perl5 toolchain gang”. In fact it is often actively | |
| opposed. The rift_is_growing with no sign of stopping, and while I have the | |
| will and means to carry on my work and route around “problem-children”, I | |
| feel more and more like I am rowing the wrong boat up the wrong stream. It | |
| doesn't help that the nature of my work essentially means that if I do | |
| everything right there is zero feedback: the silence (while understandable) | |
| is not only demoralizing in itself, but it also serves as ammunition to | |
| detractors of my_style_of_work. This, combined with my financial woes, makes | |
| taking the “exit into industry” more and more appealing, albeit still morally | |
| dubious. | |
| Thus the final $150k goal of this campaign is simply designed to match | |
| what I am walking away from. The minimum of $120k is the sum of the part of my | |
| debt that is due around new year (about $18k) and the sum Damian Conway | |
| collected (mostly from individuals) back in 2000 adjusted for inflation (about | |
| $100k). To recap in actual levels and outcomes: | |
| * < $120,000 nobody gets charged for anything. I will heed the “ultimate | |
| writing on the wall”, figure out a way to get over my scruples and find a | |
| permanent position somewhere less rewarding, but at least remunerating. I | |
| honestly do not have ideas about my future involvement with Perl5 if this is | |
| the outcome | |
| * $120,000 will serve (after complicated taxation) to wipe my slate clean, and | |
| get me through all of 2016 and maybe a bit more, allowing me to devote all my | |
| time to CPAN | |
| * $150,000 will validate that I did not invest my time badly, will send a | |
| signal that my priorities are relevant, and will generally give me more | |
| breathing room looking forward. | |
| * > $150,000 here it gets interesting: I have no intention to keep anything | |
| beyond $150,000 from this campaign. In the unlikely event that money keep | |
| pouring in I will work with one of the multiple Perl-centric nonprofits to | |
| establish a fund aiming to dispense no-strings-attached grants to individuals | |
| devoting disproportionate amount of time to the Perl5 ecosystem. I have no | |
| idea how this would eventually work, I will burn this bridge if I get to it. | |
| And that… would be all. I sincerely thank you for reading that far. | |
| Passing the proverbial hat around is a rather ugly and unseemly business, but | |
| these are the realities of our pre-UBI society: rent shall be paid on the first | |
| of the month. | |
| Cheers and happy search()ing! | |
| ¹ If “wait, I haven't seen him do much...” is crossing your mind, you would be | |
| quite right: a lot of my work is invisible to the end-user, which is generally | |
| how it should be and where the “ideological struggle” comes in. Inquire in the | |
| AMA if a list of past milestones is required. | |
| ² In western culture 0x21 is also the legal age to bear a cross… funny how it | |
| works out | |
| ³ The stipulation is that I would need to move to California, something I am | |
| not currently in a position to do. Plus obviously full time: why this is a | |
| problem will become clear as you read on. | |
| ⁴To be exact five companies in the past 4 months. There was a terrible false- | |
| start with another shop, where I essentially went with too_honest. Oh well – | |
| one never stops learning right? | |
| ⁵ When I say “not catastrophic” - I actually mean it. Back in another life I | |
| was smart enou^W^W stupidly lucky to acquire some real estate at ridiculously | |
| low interest rates, with the side effect of extra “elasticity” of my borrowing | |
| abilities. Still – debt is debt. | |
| ⁶ The calls need to be scheduled at least a week in advance. A successful | |
| session is metered in full hour increments, and should not last more than 4 | |
| hours. Thus you get at least 3 and at most 12 sessions, depending on the | |
| combined duration of each. If an NDA is necessary, the time to evaluate it will | |
| count towards your quota. Please keep in mind that I do carefully read legal | |
| documents, and avoid committing to language potentially jeopardizing my OSS | |
| work. In other words: let's strive to keep it simple ;) | |
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| </span></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>H</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">ello! | |
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| <p style="widows: 1"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"> | |
| </span></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>W</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">hat | |
| I am looking to accomplish here is not trivial, so there are many | |
| words below attempting to explain things as much as possible, without | |
| boring you to death. I also started an </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/3n4c85/i_am_a_perl5_developer_asking_25_companies_to/" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>AMA-style | |
| reddit thread</b></span></span></font></font></font></span></a><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> for | |
| additional questions. If you come here already knowing who I am, what | |
| I do, and just want me to “</span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><i><b>shut | |
| up and take your money</b></i></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">”, | |
| please consider that in addition to the obvious financial struggle | |
| this fund-raiser serves to resolve a cultural struggle as well. While | |
| I clearly welcome any and all contributions, I urge you to inform | |
| yourself before making one. A <a href="https://gist.github.com/ribasushi/d3769fa75822b7b080e9/revisions">log | |
| of modifications can be found here</a>.</span></span></span></font></font></font></span></p> | |
| <p style="widows: 1"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"> | |
| </span></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>S</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">o… | |
| hi! My name is Peter “ribasushi” Rabbitson. I have worked with | |
| Perl5 for over a decade, a lot of this time being spent building | |
| stuff </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>on</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> CPAN</span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>¹</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> as | |
| opposed to stuff </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>with</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> CPAN. | |
| End-users know me mostly as being the name behind the <a href="https://www.openhub.net/p/dbix-class" target="_blank">premier | |
| Perl5 ORM-like project DBIx::Class</a> (DBIC for short), after | |
| successfully taking the reins from the ridiculously prolific <a href="https://metacpan.org/author/MSTROUT" target="_blank">Matt | |
| Trout</a> 7 years ago. Conference goers mostly know me as the | |
| gesticulating beer drinker, who occasionally gives <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d0umrIFPR0" target="_blank">half-assed | |
| presentations</a>, or just <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jln7yqVRiIc&t=1512" target="_blank">rambles | |
| incoherently</a>. The inner circle of perl5 and the toolchain know me | |
| as the uncompromising asshole who consistently prioritizes pragmatic | |
| code over their wishes and feelings ?</span></span></span></font></font></font></span></p> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; widows: 1"><font color="#000000"> | |
| <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>L</b></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">et's | |
| address the elephant in the room right away - “</span></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><i><span style="font-weight: normal">wow | |
| this is a lot of money!</span></i></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">”. | |
| It would be if I were to ask individual contributors to gather funds | |
| for vague goals. This is not the case: I am specifically looking | |
| for </span></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>my | |
| large existing users</b></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> to | |
| “split the bill” based on </span></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>my | |
| past performance</b></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">, | |
| for their benefit and the benefit of CPAN as a whole. In other | |
| words </span></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>this | |
| fund-raiser is a public plea to companies which partially or entirely | |
| rely on my work</b></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">, | |
| and would like to see me continue rolling in the same direction, at | |
| the same speed, and with the same focus. Or in even simpler terms:</span></span></font></font></font></p> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">In | |
| order to reach the target, <b>25</b> businesses expecting | |
| DBIx::Class to retain its near-legendary stability need to budget | |
| the <b>equivalent of merely $500</b> per month, each</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">In | |
| order for me to reach the campaign tilt, <b>just 20</b> businesses | |
| need to do the same</font></font></font></p> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p style="widows: 1"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"> | |
| </span></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>T</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">his | |
| is also why this campaign is </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>remarkably | |
| long</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> (90 | |
| days): it is designed to give ample time for interested businesses to | |
| jump through the necessary procedural hoops. If using a credit card | |
| on <a href="http://www.tilt.com/" target="_blank">http://tilt.com/</a> is | |
| not an option, or if you would prefer to go the </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><i><span style="font-weight: normal">W9/1099</span></i></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> or | |
| similar route – please contact me so we can arrange something. No | |
| matter in what manner the contribution is made it will count | |
| towards the final goal, as long as it takes place before </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>December | |
| 31st 2015</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">.</span></span></span></font></font></font></span></p> | |
| <p style="widows: 1"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"> | |
| </span></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>T</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">he | |
| next order of business is handling of </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>publicity | |
| and recognition</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> of | |
| donors, alongside with the available “</span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><i><b>perk | |
| levels</b></i></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">”. | |
| Clearly I am going to write an <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/peter_rabbitson/2013/05/on-the-awesomeness-of-the-perl-community.html" target="_blank">extensive | |
| blogpost</a> or <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/peter_rabbitson/2014/06/on-the-awesomeness-of-the-perl-community-v2-201406.html" target="_blank">two</a>, | |
| as I have done previously, but that's not all (after all blog-words | |
| are cheap). Many years ago I went 100% mobile, with my exclusive | |
| workstation becoming <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_X_Series#X201" target="_blank">a | |
| high-quality "retro-laptop"</a>, which I carry | |
| practically everywhere I go. If this campaign is a success I plan to | |
| install a </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>professionally | |
| designed full-lid “laptop skin”,</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> listing | |
| all contributors in various capacities (see below), alongside an | |
| attention-grabbing “</span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>I | |
| work full time on open source, ask me how I can afford it</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">” | |
| or something along these lines (the professional designer will have | |
| final say in what things should look like). So without further ado - | |
| the levels:</span></span></span></font></font></font></span></p> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="widows: 1"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>$10 | |
| or more</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"><br/> | |
| <br/> | |
| You | |
| are a believer, thank you! </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>Your | |
| name</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> will | |
| appear in </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>a | |
| small-size font</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> on | |
| my laptop for </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>the | |
| entirety of 2016</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">. | |
| In case you are not part of the <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx%3A%3AClass#AUTHORS" target="_blank">impressive | |
| list of DBIC contributors</a>, you will also get a </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>permanent</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> mention | |
| there.</span></span></span></font></font></font></span></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="widows: 1"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>$3,000 | |
| or more</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">: | |
| one-time contribution equivalent to $250+/month towards | |
| responsible and sustainable OSS work<br/> | |
| <br/> | |
| Thank you for your | |
| substantial support! The same reward as above, except your name will | |
| appear in </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>a | |
| large-size font</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> on | |
| my laptop for the entirety of 2016. Additionally </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>your | |
| name and contribution amount</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> will | |
| be <a href="https://metacpan.org/source/RIBASUSHI/DBIx-Class-0.082820/t/zzzzzzz_authors.t#L12" target="_blank">explicitly | |
| mentioned after the count at the end of the test suite</a>, and seen | |
| by anyone watching the test run of DBIx::Class around the world!</span></span></span></font></font></font></span></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><b>$6,000 | |
| or more</b>: one-time contribution equivalent to $500+/month | |
| towards responsible and sustainable OSS work<br/> | |
| <br/> | |
| Wow! You | |
| are <b>one of </b>“<b>the 25”</b>, thank you so much | |
| for helping me make history! Same as the previous level, but in | |
| addition you get <b>a full-color logo of your choice</b> added | |
| to my laptop! Also you will be shown the <b>final artwork | |
| before it goes to print</b>, to make sure you are happy with the | |
| end-result.</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><b>$12,000 | |
| or more</b>: one-time contribution equivalent to $1,000+/month | |
| towards responsible and sustainable OSS work<br/> | |
| <br/> | |
| Ok… you | |
| clearly mean business, THANK YOU! You covered not one but <b>two | |
| “25”</b> slots. In addition to all of the above, your | |
| engineers get up to <b>12 hours of video-call</b> time | |
| with me⁶, to chat about anything that I could competently help you | |
| with: DBIC design/performance questions, weird intermittent | |
| heisenbug issues, general architectural questions, etc. As long as | |
| the problem lies within my area of expertise I will devote my full | |
| attention and try to help your engineers as much as I can.</font></font></font></p> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p style="widows: 1"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"> | |
| </span></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>N</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">eedless | |
| to say if the fund-raising succeeds, I will attempt to visit | |
| most <a href="https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bmdjdG1yZDFjYWMzNTA2MW1yanQzaHBnbmdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ" target="_blank">major | |
| Perl events</a> in 2016 and give one or two talks there, | |
| mentioning this campaign and its participants ( not that me | |
| giving a presentation is a very desirable perk ? )</span></span></span></font></font></font></span></p> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; widows: 1"><font color="#000000"> | |
| <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>S</b></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">o | |
| what will a “</span></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><i><span style="font-weight: normal">year | |
| of ribasushi</span></i></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">” | |
| actually buy? For the past several years (with the exception of a | |
| very depressing May~Aug) I have been averaging about 25 hours per | |
| week dealing with DBIC, breakage in the dependency chain, various | |
| toolchain discussions, and other work mainly described as “deeply | |
| janitorial”. I plan to ramp this up to 40 hours per week and | |
| continue maintaining this pace and focus, with the addition of | |
| public </span></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>real-time | |
| project and time tracking</b></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">.</span></span></font></font></font></p> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; widows: 1"><font color="#000000"> | |
| <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>A</b></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">s | |
| a by-product of this increased focus, there undoubtedly will be | |
| multiple </span></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>new </b></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">developments. Follows | |
| an </span></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>utterly | |
| non-exhaustive</b></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> list | |
| of more substantial (sub)projects that I am looking forward to tackle | |
| in 2016, prefixed with their rough stage of current readiness. Please | |
| keep in mind that many of them are inter-related: for example | |
| speeding up DBIC installs requires better CI timing instrumentation, | |
| which requires the App::MonProc supervisor to get finished up.</span></span></font></font></font></p> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">DBIx::Class | |
| related</font></font></font></p> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(70%) | |
| Proper relationship options/conditions</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(10%) | |
| Fold SQL::Abstract into DBIC itself (will remove a massive | |
| SQL-generation bottleneck)</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(5%) | |
| Allow inlining of inflate_result() callbacks (will provide an | |
| immense speedup during object construction, on the same order of | |
| magnitude (~15 times) as DBIC 0.08250 did)</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(5%) | |
| Introduce a proper Schema-state and generic metadata caching layer | |
| (will allow markedly faster result parsing)</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(40%) | |
| Allow for project-wide column aliasing (e.g. all your application | |
| code uses a pleasant-to-read column name, while the underlying | |
| RDBMS has a completely different unseemly column name)</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(25%) | |
| Introduce lazy/partial Schema loading (much faster startup)</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(60%) | |
| Improve test-time of DBIC (currently at 4 minutes, reduce down to | |
| 1)</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(80%) | |
| Do more preparation/legwork to give a chance to the “DBIC | |
| re-documentation project” to become a reality</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(60%) | |
| Possibly look at revamping and finishing DBIC::Shadow (long shot | |
| though, pieces aren't in place yet)</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(20%) | |
| Make the storage layer much more flexible (and faster)</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(10%) | |
| Work with mst on an actual Data::Query AST specification</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(15%) | |
| Integrate an alternative Data::Query-based specification for | |
| complex relationship definitions</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(???) | |
| Find someone with enough experience to pair and design an async | |
| DBIC sub-interface, and then implement it</font></font></font></p> | |
| </ul> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">Dependency | |
| chains</font></font></font></p> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(90%) | |
| Turn the TravisCI setup into a real once-per-day smoker (submitting | |
| FAIL reports etc)</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(70%) | |
| Take a tangible stab at modularizing the DBIC TravisCI setup, test | |
| drive it on SQL::Abstract / SQL::Translator</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(0%) | |
| Extend the type of smoking to other branches of the common | |
| dependency chains (Plack/Web::Simple, perhaps Catalyst, maybe even | |
| as far as RapidApp)</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(40%) | |
| Improve test/installation times of DBIC dependencies</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(70%) | |
| Generate precise timings of tests / dependency installation / etc | |
| timings across various perl versions. Work with renormalist to | |
| integrate them into the perlformance graphs</font></font></font></p> | |
| </ul> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">Toolchain</font></font></font></p> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(90%) | |
| Finish the advanced dependency grapher ( a prototype was showcased | |
| at QAH2015, but then I realized it renders incorrect data in | |
| pathological cases – needs a thorough rewrite )</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(80%) | |
| Finish and publish the optional dependency specification as used | |
| without failure in DBIC since 2010</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(80%) | |
| Finish and publish the environment reporting tool currently used by | |
| DBIC</font></font></font></p> | |
| </ul> | |
| </ul> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">Misc</font></font></font></p> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(70%) | |
| Extract / standardize / document the leak-free circular dependency | |
| mechanism used by DBIC</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(80%) | |
| Finish App::MonProc ( generic instrumentation for verbatim capture | |
| of process IO and other stats, think a crossbreed between “lockfree | |
| IPC::Open3” and “tee on steroids” )</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">(???) | |
| Continue engaging in the Perl Toolchain Gang, advocating for better | |
| care of the CPAN river etc</font></font></font></p> | |
| </ul> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p style="widows: 1"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"> | |
| </span></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>T</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">he | |
| last "misc" point deserves further elaboration: Throughout | |
| all work I undertake I pledge to continuously uphold and where | |
| possible expand the implicit commitment made to existing deployments: | |
| commitment of </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>backward</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">- | |
| and when possible </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/release/RJBS/perl-5.22.0/pod/perlpolicy.pod#BACKWARD-COMPATIBILITY-AND-DEPRECATION" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>bugward</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">-compatibility</span></font></font></font></span></span></span></a><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">. | |
| I want to underscore in no uncertain terms the importance I assign to | |
| such efforts, and to put my position in stark contrast with the | |
| currently prevalent mood that could be summed up as “</span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><i><span style="font-weight: normal">stability | |
| is an enterprise quirk, which the average user should neither | |
| seek nor count on, especially in the realm of free software</span></i></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">”. | |
| I strongly believe that <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/3fx3cg/visualizing_perl_5_release_history_2015_edition/ctw149n" target="_blank">attitudes | |
| like this</a> is what ails our software commons in general, and | |
| the Perl5 ecosystem in particular. Large-scale semi-forced upgrades, | |
| which in the real world are costly and <a href="http://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/2093" target="_blank">almost | |
| never problem free</a> must remain an action of last resort for | |
| the end user. Instead a responsible toolsmith must strive to allow | |
| individual components to be swapped out with no disturbances to the | |
| surrounding environment. Moreover, an uncomfortably small, but | |
| dedicated group of like-minded developers, have consistently | |
| demonstrated this to be achievable without expending almost any extra | |
| effort, thus making this a </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>question | |
| of attitude</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> as | |
| opposed to naively making it a question of volunteer time | |
| availability.</span></span></span></font></font></font></span></p> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; widows: 1"><font color="#000000"> | |
| <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>T</b></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">o | |
| put it another way: I believe that </span></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>if | |
| an end-user</b></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> (corporate | |
| and individual alike) </span></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>needs | |
| to change their application</b></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> code </span></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>upon | |
| library upgrade</b></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">, | |
| while the changes do </span></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>not | |
| offer compelling direct benefits</b></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> to | |
| their codebase – this is a sign </span></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>I | |
| have failed as a maintainer</b></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">, | |
| and it is on me to find a better way, and make things right for the | |
| user.</span></span></font></font></font></p> | |
| <p style="widows: 1"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"> | |
| </span></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>S</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">till | |
| – how did I arrive at these exact money amounts? Having recently | |
| turned 0x21</span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>²</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>,</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> I | |
| get to think a lot about <a href="http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2014/02/the-mid-career-crisis-of-the-perl-programmer.html?" target="_blank">where | |
| I stand and where I am going</a>. Of course my circumstances and | |
| views differ substantially from that article, but the question is | |
| still there. Bottom practical line is: my debt levels are becoming | |
| unserviceable, while at the same time I am not ready to willingly | |
| abandon my DBIC/CPAN/Perl5 efforts (and in fact am ready to double | |
| down). Hence this campaign to break the deadlock, essentially | |
| attempting to replicate the feat of <a href="http://yetanother.org/damian/about.html" target="_blank">Damian | |
| Conway from 15 years ago</a>. In addition this is a feeble attempt to | |
| prove that my efforts to retain stability for existing users at all | |
| costs, and to optimize the software stack </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>for</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> the | |
| end-user </span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>at | |
| the expense</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> of | |
| the community's inner circle are actually worth something.</span></span></span></font></font></font></span></p> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; widows: 1"><font color="#000000"> | |
| <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>I</b></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">n | |
| order to paint a better picture, allow me a short recap of my present | |
| situation:</span></span></font></font></font></p> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="widows: 1"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>The | |
| good:</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"><br/> | |
| I | |
| nearly single-handedly develop and maintain one of the cornerstones | |
| of the Perl5 “batteries included” offering. I am unreasonably | |
| good at what I do. Besides the technical chops I bring to the table, | |
| I am blessed with a remarkable ability to hold and recall vast | |
| amounts of technical trivia, and to effortlessly keep my | |
| concentration on a problem for ridiculous periods of time. Despite | |
| being more efficient than average, I never manage to lose sight of | |
| the simple truth: that my time (and dignity) as a library developer | |
| is under no circumstances more valuable than that of any other | |
| developer/system integrator/product tester/etc who happen to be | |
| using my work. If anything the understanding of the | |
| multiplication-factor attached to my actions obligates me to be even | |
| more careful and reasoned in every line I publish. Over time this | |
| streak has earned me <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/peter_rabbitson/2013/07/crowdsourcing-self-confidence.html#comments" target="_blank">non-trivial | |
| recognition within the community</a>: no longer that of a | |
| volunteer but instead of a ridiculously skilled professional | |
| electing to work <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_bono" target="_blank">pro-bono</a>. As | |
| a pleasant side effect (without explicitly searching for work) my | |
| inbox contains several open-ended job offers from companies doing | |
| interesting things, both contract and salaried. One of them even has | |
| an actual number attached: $150k</span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>³</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> . | |
| In short – I come remarkably close to a truly emphatic full stack | |
| engineer, my skills are recognized, respected and valued, I am in my | |
| prime, the world is my oyster.</span></span></span></font></font></font></span></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><b>The | |
| bad:</b><br/> | |
| My attention to detail does not have an “off switch” | |
| - in other words I am thorough not by choice but “by design”. | |
| The result is propensity to approach most problems via time | |
| consuming, “holistic”, deeply integrated solutions. This yields | |
| superb results in the long run, but makes it very difficult to seek | |
| full time employment – it becomes a zero-sum battle for my limited | |
| waking time. To top it off I am both deeply utilitarian and | |
| (stupidly) altruistic beyond a fault, resulting in a moral obstacle | |
| preventing me from diverting most of my time from the wider user | |
| base, which would essentially be robbed of a unique and | |
| irreplaceable combination of skill, domain knowledge, and… grit. | |
| This leaves part-time contract work as the only potential source of | |
| income. As of late I have utterly failed to secure such work, mainly | |
| due to my utilitarianism clashing with the predominantly available | |
| work: one-off slap-together-and-forget jobs. The actual verbatim | |
| text I have recently sent to several prospective | |
| outfits⁴ reads:<br/> | |
| <br/> | |
| ...W<i>hile I am looking for | |
| something much more involved than "drive-by code-and-forget | |
| consulting", I am also looking for an arrangement decidedly | |
| less involved than "company owns all my waking hours". I | |
| consider the non-trivial amount of time I spend on OSS work too | |
| important to give up unilaterally, even if it very tangibly hurts my | |
| income. This is why I started looking at companies with an | |
| established product in need of care/maintenance…</i> <i><br/> | |
| </i><br/> | |
| As | |
| you have probably guessed - so far there have been no takers. The | |
| reflection on my financial situation, while not catastrophic⁵, is | |
| becoming close to utterly unsustainable: as of this writing I owe | |
| various institutions, family and friends about $35,000~$40,000 | |
| (about $18k of this is institutions, due “soon”).</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="widows: 1"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>The | |
| ugly</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"><br/> | |
| To | |
| top it off my sense of responsibility to the end-user is not shared | |
| within the active core of the “Perl5 toolchain gang”. In fact it | |
| is often actively opposed. The <a href="https://twitter.com/ribasushi/status/618825958699745280" target="_blank">rift | |
| is growing</a> with no sign of stopping, and while I have the | |
| will and means to carry on my work and route around | |
| “problem-children”, I feel more and more like I am rowing the | |
| wrong boat up the wrong stream. It doesn't help that the nature of | |
| my work essentially means that if I do everything right there is | |
| zero feedback: the silence (while understandable) is not only | |
| demoralizing in itself, but it also serves as ammunition to | |
| detractors of <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/3fx3cg/visualizing_perl_5_release_history_2015_edition/ctuzs2h" target="_blank">my | |
| style of work</a>. This, combined with my financial woes, makes | |
| taking the “exit into industry” more and more appealing, albeit | |
| still morally dubious.</span></span></span></font></font></font></span></p> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p style="widows: 1"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"> | |
| </span></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>T</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">hus | |
| the final $150k goal of this campaign is simply designed to match | |
| what I am walking away from. The minimum of $120k is the sum of the | |
| part of my debt that is due around new year (about $18k) and the sum | |
| Damian Conway collected (mostly from individuals) back in 2000 | |
| adjusted for inflation (about $100k). To recap in actual levels and | |
| outcomes:</span></span></span></font></font></font></span></p> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">< | |
| $120,000 nobody gets charged for anything. I will heed the “ultimate | |
| writing on the wall”, figure out a way to get over my scruples and | |
| find a permanent position somewhere less rewarding, but at least | |
| remunerating. I honestly do not have ideas about my future | |
| involvement with Perl5 if this is the outcome</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">$120,000 | |
| will serve (after complicated taxation) to wipe my slate clean, and | |
| get me through all of 2016 and maybe a bit more, allowing me to | |
| devote all my time to CPAN</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">$150,000 | |
| will validate that I did not invest my time badly, will send a | |
| signal that my priorities are relevant, and will generally give me | |
| more breathing room looking forward.</font></font></font></p> | |
| <li/> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; widows: 1"> | |
| <font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt">> | |
| $150,000 here it gets interesting: I have no intention to keep | |
| anything beyond $150,000 from this campaign. In the unlikely event | |
| that money keep pouring in I will work with one of the multiple | |
| Perl-centric nonprofits to establish a fund aiming to dispense | |
| no-strings-attached grants to individuals devoting disproportionate | |
| amount of time to the Perl5 ecosystem. I have no idea how this would | |
| eventually work, I will burn this bridge if I get to it.</font></font></font></p> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p style="widows: 1"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"> | |
| </span></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>A</b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">nd | |
| that… would be all. I sincerely thank you for reading that far. | |
| Passing the proverbial hat around is a rather ugly and unseemly | |
| business, but these are the realities of our pre-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income" target="_blank">UBI</a> society: | |
| rent shall be paid on the first of the month.</span></span></span></font></font></font></span></p> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; widows: 1"><font color="#000000"> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">Cheers | |
| and happy search()ing!</span></span></font></font></font></p> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; widows: 1"><font color="#000000"> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">¹ | |
| If “</span></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><i><span style="font-weight: normal">wait, | |
| I haven't seen him do much...</span></i></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">” | |
| is crossing your mind, you would be quite right: a lot of my work is | |
| invisible to the end-user, which is generally how it should be and | |
| where the “ideological struggle” comes in. Inquire in the AMA if | |
| a list of past milestones is required.</span></span></font></font></font></p> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; widows: 1"><font color="#000000"> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">² | |
| In western culture </span></span></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><i><span style="font-weight: normal">0x21</span></i></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> is | |
| also the legal age to bear a cross… funny how it works out</span></span></font></font></font></p> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; widows: 1"><font color="#000000"> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">³ | |
| The stipulation is that I would need to move to California, something | |
| I am not currently in a position to do. Plus obviously full time: why | |
| this is a problem will become clear as you read on.</span></span></font></font></font></p> | |
| <p style="widows: 1"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"> ⁴ | |
| </span></font></span><span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">To | |
| be exact five companies in the past 4 months. There was a terrible | |
| false-start with another shop, where I essentially went with <a href="http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3454" target="_blank">too | |
| honest</a>. Oh well – one never stops learning right?</span></span></span></font></font></font></span></p> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; widows: 1"><font color="#000000"> ⁵ | |
| <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">When | |
| I say “not catastrophic” - I actually mean it. Back in another | |
| life I was smart enou^W^W stupidly lucky to acquire some real estate | |
| at ridiculously low interest rates, with the side effect of extra | |
| “elasticity” of my borrowing abilities. Still – debt is debt.</span></span></font></font></font></p> | |
| <p style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; widows: 1"><font color="#000000"> ⁶ | |
| <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">The | |
| calls need to be scheduled at least a week in advance. A successful | |
| session is metered in full hour increments, and should not last more | |
| than 4 hours. Thus you get at least 3 and at most 12 sessions, | |
| depending on the combined duration of each. If an NDA is necessary, | |
| the time to evaluate it will count towards your quota. Please keep in | |
| mind that I do carefully read legal documents, and avoid committing | |
| to language potentially jeopardizing my OSS work. In other words: | |
| let's strive to keep it simple ;)</span></span></font></font></font></p> | |
| <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><br/> | |
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